Welcome to Lanes Island Productions
Lanes Island Productions is an independent documentary film company based in New York City. It was founded by Amy Brown in 2007.
Our films take viewers to the distant green hills of Rwanda and into minds and memories of women who entered adulthood on the eve of America's entry into World War II.
Whether in Rwanda, following journalism students debate how to build an independent press or in conversations with women still mourning the loss of the professional careers they abandoned when World War II ended, our films explore the complexity of people, situations and ideas with sensitivity and curiosity.
In our work, we hold up E.B. White's vision for television and documentary film:
"I think TV should be providing the visual counterpart of the literary essay, should arouse our dreams, satisfy our hunger for beauty, take us on journeys, enable us to participate in events, present great drama and music, explore the sea and the sky and the woods and the hills... It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle."— E. B. White states his hopes for public television in a letter to the first Carnegie Commission, September 26, 1966